SARAHMUrphypORTFOLIO OF WORK

SARAHMUrphypORTFOLIO OF WORK

XXS topo chair 04XS the link: urban bike space 06S threshold pavilion 10M firestationno.112L architecture school am shinkelplatz 14XL campus masterplan 16

XXL WEST BOTTOMS: URBAN DESIGNtopographical analysis 18

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JOINT DETAILINGSKETCHES AND STUDY MODELS

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PROGRAM: Given constraints of material exploration (plywood) and dimension (2’ x 2’ x 2’).

This chair deals with both the pli-able and rigid nature of plywood. Within a strict frame, interlocking pieces respond to the topography of the user.

Constructed using .5” birch ply-wood, after testing how far differ-ent widths would bend without breaking.

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PROGRAM: A mobile gathering space that transcends social barriers by being a mediator between those who know and those who want to know about cycling. This is a user-sustained entity that provides a social connection to the city. It enables a lifestyle of exploration.

SITE: The Link is completely mobile--adaptable to any urban situation. It stands in any parallel parking space (10’ x 20’). A kit of parts arrives in a standard truck trailer, is able to be assembled by 4 people with a socket wrench in one afternoon.

The structure’s location is determined by local cycling groups, varying from city to city. It is user-created, user-maintained, and as a result, transient and changing. The space is open: between work and social activities, between the benches and the sidewalk, between the workbench and the street. This creates a neutral meeting ground for any person interested in cycling.

The materials are known and durable: tube steel framing, industrial rubber flooring, aluminum, and reclaimed timber, into which notices can be posted.

TEAM: A.Kirchoff, P.Peterson

the link:urban bike space

Assembly and connection details

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FLOOR CONSTRUCTION

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p.09THE LINK:

URBAN BIKE SpaceTOP: Roof planBOTTOM: Section perpendicular to lanes

TOP: Floor planBOTTOM: Section parallel to lanes

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MODEL VIEWSBasswood, acrylic, matboard

Packing schematic, Street entry, sidewalk approach

12’ 8"

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LEFT: structure, program, space schematic

TOP: site and first floor plan

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PROGRAM: Create a new entry experience to the city from the river. Interface surrounding pathways and civic buildings influence with new site development.

SITE: The pavillion-grouping is just east of the new Foster and Partners London city hall on the Thames, and serves as a new entry point to the city of London: from the water. It creates the spaces seen in a boat yard: overturned hulls and trailers creating space to be explored. Wandering through the space, one can find a daytime cafe, an evening lounge, a gallery, an auditorium, and a dock.

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BOTTOM: model view from the Thames

COURTYARD VIEWS

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No.1 P. 12BELOW:CONCEPT MODELTOP: FINAL DESIGN

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ACTIVATED SPACE

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0’ 5’ 10’ 20’ 40’01. GROUND FLOOR02. SLEEPING QUARTERS WALL SECTION

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HYP. 14Sections, porosity study

Programming of facade Schematic rela-tionship of facade, circulation, and site.

PROGRAM: “The Ideal Architecture School”

SITE: The site of Schenkel’s historic Bauakademie in the heart of Mitte, Berlin.

The building takes on the strict geometry of Shenkel’s revered backstein original in the context of today’s architecture profession, allowing for a maleable plan with integrated “shortcuts” through the building. It responds to Berlin’s winter climate through a porous skin and gradated sun shading.

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9Architecture school am schinkelplatz

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Urban context, site plan, in-situ aerial

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CAMpus masterplan:residential ring

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PROGRAM: Given the concept of concentric rings as campus plan, create a prototype for student housing which acts as Stadtmauerenclosing the activities of campus.

The placeless architecture of typi-cal block housing is viewed in plan and elevation, but is experienced on the ground floor as no longer subservient to the overlooking eye of the corresponding academic buildings. Public lawns are under close surveilence, but the court-yards and bridges create a world that can be claimed by its resi-dents.

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“ORDERS OF THE CITY” excerpt: boundaries, topography, texture

The study of topography built off of existing plans and took two major forms: vertical sections and elevational scans. The plans show major patterns and densities of contour lines. The sections focus on major topographical features in relationship to built features. The elevational scans focus on what occurs at given elevations.

Both of these analytical studies pull instances of information out of the volumetric whole, showing how the landscape builds upon itself. The sections, taken every 150’ through the site, emphasize the relationships between the rivers, the West Bottoms river plain, the bluff, and downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The scans, taken every 10’ (and 2’ through elevations occupied by buildings in the West Bottoms), emphasize elevational relationships between regions--where the tallest buildings occur, etc.

These drawings not only provide a visual understanding of the topography, but also form a base-work for future design, making the visualization of relating one piece of the city to another easier.

TEAM: S.Pink, J.Husmann

WEST BOTTOMS:topographical

analysis

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“CITY SECTIONS” taken at 150’ intervals

TOP: Model of sectional cityMIDDLE: 12th Street viaduct as connector between two citiesBOTTOM: overlaid line drawings of 150’ intervals

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I.10 SITE CONTEXTPercieved realm of

corridor system

Hickory Street is the primary north-south corridor in the West Bottoms, running almost the entire length of the eastern side. This street is the spine and reference point for the surrounding activity. It is a large-scale anchoring system, which can define and contrast the smaller systems. These smaller systems take the form of courtyard spaces, view corridors, framed open space, spaces below and above infrastructure, no-man’s-land, and alleys.

These established corridors and their subordinate network of alley and open spaces are clarified by infill pieces and smaller-scale zoning. These north-south connectors skewer and define the interactions that happen on an east-west axis.

TEAM: C.Koch, J.Husmann, K.Rogler, S.Schulz

WEST bottoms:Hickory corridor

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TOP: drawing relationshipsBOTTOM: activating streetfronts

Spatial importance of the rail right-of-way

Spatial importance street right-of-way

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LAYERS OF DESIGN:create rhythm, order open space, structure infill, align street grid, preserve context

SPATIAL ORGANIZATION:a series of intentional spaces, identified by texture and program, linked by alleys

SITE: The historic urban core of the West Bottoms is the area characterized by a building stock, most notably warehouses, from the early 1900s. The buildings are loosely arranged around a north-south corridor, surviving in clusters and fragments, sliced through by rail and automotive viaducts, just out of the 100-year floodplain, giving rise to the now-forgotten infrastructural city that is our given condition.

PROGRAM: Assessing the current condition for opportunities, arranging infrastructures to reinforce these opportunities, and finally re-activating them with human programming. We are, in short, formalizing the informally created spaces through strategic structuring and tactical intervention to create an augmented urban form.

TEAM: M.Caroll, C.Koch, J.Husmann, S.Schulz

west bottoms:historic core

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MULBERRY PARK

TWELFTH STREET URBAN ROOM

HICKORY SQUARE

PEDESTRIAN RAIL BRIDGE

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TWELFTH STREET SECTION

HICKORY STREET SECTION

HICKORY SQUARE STREET SECTION

RAIL LINE / MULBERRY STREET SECTION

STREET SECTIONS

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RAILROAD CROSSING:essential human ammenity allowing an urban barrier to become an event

MULBERRY PARK

TWELFTH STREET URBAN ROOM

HICKORY SQUARE

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MULBERRY PARK

TWELFTH STREET URBAN ROOM

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HISTORIC CORE PLAN

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